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Dave Nelson
Earl Tuson's question about the ACL car got me to look at the web site he
mentioned and therein I came across this image of a FGEX car: <<http://www.srmduluth.org/photos/fge_2007.jpg>> Two questions: Is the car number actually correct for this car and does this car match any resin kits? Anyone know? TIA. Dave Nelson |
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Anthony Thompson <thompson@...>
Dave Nelson wrote:
Earl Tuson's question about the ACL car got me to look at the web site heThe car body kinda looks like last year's Cocoa Beach Shake 'n Take project. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@... Publishers of books on railroad history |
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On Mar 9, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Dave Nelson wrote:
Earl Tuson's question about the ACL car got me to look at the web site heDave, The 55000 series were post-WWII rebuilds with an eave height of 12' 11". Until recently I thought that these would all have had the 8" side sill, but Bill Welch recently pointed out (here IIRC) that some of these were rebuilt from 1921 design cars with 6" side sills. That appears to be the case here. This car could be modeled from the Sunshine resin kit or the IM plastic kit by modifying the side sills and crossbearers. Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/index.pl/bruce_f._smith2 "Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." __ / \ __<+--+>________________\__/___ ________________________________ |- ______/ O O \_______ -| | __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ | | / 4999 PENNSYLVANIA 4999 \ | ||__||__||__||__||__||__||__||__|| |/_____________________________\|_|________________________________| | O--O \0 0 0 0/ O--O | 0-0-0 0-0-0 |
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Bill Welch
When I was ask for input for the IM kit, I strongly urged them to design it so that two different side sills could be applied the cars in the 55000 series, which constituted about half of the postwar rebuilds. The cars with the 6-inch sill are more personally interesting to me as they tend to feature a variety of different plates applied to the sill which because they are 8-inches showed up more than when applied to the 8-inch sill. Western Fruit had cars w/the 6-inch sill also.
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The IM and Sunshine kits both require removing the sill and replacing it with 6-inch scale styrene strip. the plates woud need to be scratch built as well but not hard to do., and then harvest rivets from Athearn boxcars. Bill Welch --- In STMFC@..., "Dave Nelson" <Lake_Muskoka@...> wrote:
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Anthony Thompson <thompson@...>
Bill Welch wrote:
The IM and Sunshine kits both require removing the sill and replacing it with 6-inch scale styrene strip. the plates woud need to be scratch built as well but not hard to do., and then harvest rivets from Athearn boxcars.Ah, so 20th century. Betcha Archer rivets would be easier. I haven't tried them for anything yet that didn't work. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@... Publishers of books on railroad history |
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